Taste of Tech Seminar: Digital Twins with AI, GPU Computing, and Omniverse | Advances in Wide- and Ultrawide-Bandgap Materials

Taste of Tech Seminar Series

09/20/24

Lunch will be provided during the seminar

Time

11:45 AM – 1:00 PM (EST)

Talk 1: John Stone is an NVIDIA Distinguished Engineer, with extensive expertise in scientific visualization, high performance ray tracing, and GPU computing. Mr. Stone previously served as the lead developer of VMD, a high performance tool for preparation, analysis, and visualization of biomolecular simulations used by over 100,000 researchers all over the world. Mr. Stone is a frequent contributor to HPC workshops and software development hackathons for next-generation parallel computers. He was inducted as an NVIDIA CUDA Fellow in 2010. Mr. Stone and coauthors were winners of the scientific visualization and data analytics showcase at Supercomputing’14 and Supercomputing’19. Mr. Stone and coauthors won the ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research at Supercomputing 2020.

Presentation Title: Digital Twins with AI, GPU Computing, and Omniverse
Abstract: Digital twins create linked virtual representations of physical systems.  When provided with sufficient computational capability for timely, actionable responses to user inputs and queries, and updates that maintain synchronization to the physical system, digital twins can provide users with powerful and intuitive interactions, e.g., to answer “what if” questions or to identify opportunities for optimization or improvement of the physical systems.  This talk will introduce some of the technologies that enable state-of-the-art digital twins to be built, and the development challenges that they often pose.

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Talk 2: Travis J. Anderson is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida. Prior to joining UF in 2024, Dr. Anderson was the Head of the Power Electronics and Advanced Materials Branch at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, leading a group of scientists studying fundamental material growth, device processing, and performance evaluation of power electronic materials such as SiC, GaN, Ga2O3, and diamond. His research career has focused on wide bandgap III-N devices and process integration. He has expertise in fabrication, reliability, thermal management, and radiation effects in GaN, AlGaN, and many other materials systems. Dr. Anderson received a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Florida in 2008 and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2004. He is the author of over 250 publications, over 370 presentations (over 100 invited), and has been awarded 42 patents. He is a recipient of the 2014 and 2022 Edison Awards for best NRL patent, 2022 NRL Technology Transition Award, and 2016 Dolores M. Etter Top Navy Scientist Award.

Presentation Title: Advances in Wide- and Ultrawide-Bandgap Materials and Devices
Abstract: Wide-bandgap semiconductors (SiC, GaN) and Ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors (Ga₂O₃, AlGaN, AlN, BN, and diamond) are key emerging materials for next-generation microelectronic device applications due to the high breakdown field and high mobility, enabling high switching speed and low switching losses. At the system level, this translates to improved size, weight, power consumption, cooling requirements, and system cost (SWaP-C²). In addition, materials are capable of operation in extreme environments such as high temperatures (>500C) and radiation environments. This presentation will provide an overview of the current state of materials and device technology as well as discuss technical challenges faced by researchers in the community.

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